Abstract
"Mr. Yeats' poetry," Chesterton once said, "is not only good, but obviously good. It is his point of view that might be dubious or disappointing." Then he proceeded to explain how a writer’s point of view which is in no way controversial in him, may become controversial through our attitude, This, it seems to me, is the general attitude taken toward Mr. Yeats. "His figure is seen a little crooked, his true temperament is not felt." The first broad impression that most people have of Mr, Yeats is that a young man has claimed to have seen the fairies. Now, Mr. Yeats would be the last one to impugn such a remark, but — as much as he would have liked to see the fairies — he would never claim having introduced the "faeries" to Ireland. | We must accept Mr. Yeats for what he is, for what he wrote, and for how he wrote it — and as for the "faeries" — "We don’t know anything about them, and generally we don’t want to." But -- "faeries stand to reason."